Teen Breakup Ends in Murder
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Lily Silva-Lopez tries to break up with her boyfriend of six months, but Jovanni Sirio-Cardona is not ready to give up the relationship.
He responds by threatening the girl. He puts a gun barrel in her mouth and tells the teen that they are not breaking up. Lily Silva-Lopez confides in a cousin about the threats and the cousin tells Silva-Lopez's mother.
Greely police respond to a domestic violence complaint when Lily Silva-Lopez tells police that Sirio-Cardona had punched her in the face and hurt her arm. Weeks later, Silva-Lopez is shot multiple times in the hallway of her home, then dragged back into her room.
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- Wendy Patrick - California Prosecutor, Author of "Why Bad Looks Good," and "Red Flags;" Hot of "Today with Dr. Wendy" on KCBQ in San Diego; Twitter: @WendyPatrickPHD
- Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist (specializing in capital mitigation and victim advocacy); Author of "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology;" Twitter: @TrialDoc
- Robert Crispin - Private Investigator, Former Federal Task Force Officer for United States Department of Justice, DEA and Miami Field Division; Former Homicide and Crimes Against Children Investigator; Facebook: Crispin Special Investigations, Inc.
- Shannon Henry - President & Founder of SASS Go, (Surviving Assault Standing Strong: a nonprofit on a mission to eradicate abuse, trafficking and violence against women and girls globally); Department of Education Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina; FB, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @sassgoglobal
- Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida, Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine, and Founder/Host: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference
- Jen Smith - Chief Reporter for DailyMail.com; Twitter: @jen_e_smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:07.0 | Why is the little teen girl murdered in her own home? |
| 0:21.0 | The investigation into her homicide leads us into uncharted territory. |
| 0:30.0 | I mean, Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. |
| 0:32.0 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation in Series 6M111. |
| 0:36.0 | First of all, take a look at our friends at CBS. |
| 0:39.0 | Flowers, stuffed animals, candles, and a birthday balloon surrounded the window of 15-year-old Lily Silver Lopez, who was murdered in her home June 16. |
| 0:48.0 | I mean, it's peaceful, but we've had crime and stuff, but nothing like this. |
| 0:52.0 | Neighbors in the area like cardenas are still in shock. |
| 0:55.0 | So I saw the neighbor of the tow truck and I stopped and I said, what's going on? |
| 0:59.0 | And he goes, oh, the police are looking for you to get a camera. |
| 1:02.0 | You're from your footage. I said, why? He goes, someone got killed. |
| 1:05.0 | Someone got killed. That's one way of putting it. |
| 1:08.0 | A beautiful little girl, Lily, a teen in her own home, her family home, is murdered. |
| 1:17.0 | At the time her little brother was home as well. |
| 1:21.0 | Who would murder a little girl, terrifying her little brother? |
| 1:28.0 | Take a listen to more. |
| 1:30.0 | Cardenas tells CBS Colorado her camera caught the defendant running down the blank path into the home. |
| 1:36.0 | That's where he forced himself into the young girl's home through her window, according to the affidavit obtained by CBS Colorado. |
| 1:43.0 | And it just scares me to death. |
| 1:46.0 | Just 9, 3, 3, and you have to do the ram right by. |
| 1:49.0 | And not knowing that he was going with that intention. |
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